Education
Graduate three-grade municipal college. Passed examinations for 4th grade at high school.
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Yemelyan Mikhaylovich YAROSLAVSKIY
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Worked as book-binder and pharmacist’s assistant. 1898 organized first Social-Democratic circle for workers of Transbaykal Railroad, as well as a student political circle. 1901 went abroad and returned with a shipment of illegal literature
Member, Chita Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee. 1903 arrested; released, placed under police surveillance and went underground. Moved to Saint St. Petersburg.
Member, Saint St. Petersburg Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee. Propagandist and organizer at enterprises in Narvskaya Zastava dislr. April 1904 arrested while preparing May Day demonstration and imprisoned until mid-December 1904.
Released on bail and resumed Party work. After 9 January 1905 riots forced to leave Saint St. Petersburg. Executive Party work in Tver’, Nizhniy Novgorod, Kiev and Odessa.
13 February 1905 rearrested in Odessa and held in prison until June 1905. Released after a 10-day hunger strike and returned to Party work in Odessa, then Tula;October-December 1905 helped lead revol movement in Yaroslavl’. December 1905 attended Tammerfors Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Conference, then moved to Moscow and became a member, Moscow Party Committee.
Worked for military organisation, Moscow Party Committee and helped publish journal “Zhizn’ soldata”. Spring 1906 arrested at Conference of Moscow Bolshevik Military Organisation Escaped from Suchchyovo Police Headquarters.
Sent by Yaroslavl' Party Organization(s) to 4th Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Congress in Stockholm. Then Party work in Yekaterinoslav, Moscow and Saint St. Petersburg. In Saint St. Petersburg edited underground military newspaper “Kazarma”.
Late 1906 attended 1st Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Military-Battle Conference in Tammerfors, which appointed the Provisional Bureau of Military and Battle Organisations Spring 1907 attended 5th Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Congress in London as deleg from Military Orgs of Saint St. Petersburg and Kronstadt. Returned from the congress to Saint St. Petersburg, was arrested and held in Kresty Jail for 18 months.
Tried but acquitted for connections with printing of newspaper “Rabochiy”. Foreign connections with Military-Battle Organization(s) sentenced to seven years hard labor, reduced to five years upon appeal. Served two years of the sentence in Saint St. Petersburg Transient Prison, then at Butyrka Prison in Moscow and from 1912 at Gornyy Zerentuy.
Then until 1917 February Revol lived at a settlement in Y’akutsk Oblast. 1915 — 17 custodian, Yakutsk Oblast Museum;JuIy 1917 returned to Moscow and worked for Moscow Military Organisation Ran Bolshevik newspaper “Sotsial-demokral”.
Fall 1917 edited Bolshevik newspaper “Derevenskaya pravda”. August 1917 attended 6th Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Congress. During 1917 October Revol member, Moscow Military Revol Committee.
Helped direct armed coup in Moscow. Moscow Bolshevik delegation Constituent Assembly.
From 1918 assistant comissar, then comissar, Moscow Military district. Political educational work in Red Army. Sided with Leftist Communists over Brest Peace Treaty.
1920 worked in Permanent', then Omsk for Siberian Oblast Bureau and Omsk Party Committee. At 8th and 9th Party Congresses elected candidate member, and at 10th and 11th Congresses member, Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). 1921 sccr,Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Fall 1921—late 1922 worked in Siberia as member. Siberian Oblast Party Committee. At 12th-16th Party Congresses elected member, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Centr Control Commission.
From 1923 secretary, Party Collegium, CPSUB(B) Centr Control Commission. Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Central Executive Committee. Head, Social of Exiles and Polit Prisoners.
Board member, Institute of Lenin. Member, editorial board, newspaper “Pravda” and journals “Bol'shevik” and “Istorik-Marksist”. From 1925 chairman, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Atheists.
1922-1941 ed, newspaper “Bczbozhnik”. 1926-1932 ed, journal “Bezbozhnik”. 1926-1941 ed, journal “Anti-religioznik”.
From 1931 ed, editorial board, journal “Voinstvuyushchiy ateist”. From 1931 chairman, Social of “Old Bolsheviks". Head, Chair of All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) History, Higher Party School, Central Committee.
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Head, Lecturers Group, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). At 17th Party Congress elected member, Party Control Commission, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
At 18th Party Congress elected member, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). From 1937 deputy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme So\.
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Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics